Monday, July 29, 2013

Zanzibari carrier, Tropical Air, on July 19 officially launched a 3x weekly service from Zanzibar to Mbeya via Dar es Salaam using an ATR42-300. Flights in reality operate to Songwe International Airport which serves the town of Mbeya.

Monday, June 24, 2013

Mr Lekani Katandula, a partner at audit and business advisory firm Deloitte, the officially appointed liquidators for the now defunct Air Malawi Ltd (QM), has announced that the airline's fleet of three aircraft, an ATR42, a B737-300 and a B737-500, are now up for sale to all interested parties.

Friday, March 29, 2013

Mukuba
Airlines, dubbed Zambia's first Budget airline/LCC, is set to start
operations in the next few months, in time for the XXth United Nations
World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) General Assembly to be jointly held
in Livingstone & Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe in August this year.

Friday, November 9, 2012

Tanzanian carrier Precision Air (PW), today, took delivery of its first ATR42-600 out of five brand new -600 series ATR aircraft (i.e. 4 ATR 42-600s and 1 ATR 72-600) ordered in December 2011. The official ceremony took place earlier today at the ATR Delivery Center in Toulouse, France, and was attended by Alfonse Kioko, CEO of Precision Air and Filippo Bagnato, ATR's CEO.

"Air Malawi's Tariffs and Industry Affairs Manager Tony Chimpukuso said the flights have already proved useful and convenient
for local travellers as it leaves early in the morning in Blantyre and
returns late in the evening to enable customers do all their business
assignments during the day.

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